How To Use Melancholia In A Sentence

There was a pause while he swam the vast and slate-blue lakes of his inner melancholia to bring to me his request. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Multa cura et tristitia faciunt accedere melancholiam Anatomy of Melancholy
Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
He felt his stale melancholia leave him, his head become clearer, his nerves tauten. Autumn
There was a pause while he swam the vast and slate-blue lakes of his inner melancholia to bring to me his request. THE CALLIGRAPHER

That was probably why he was often haunted by spells of melancholia and dark thoughts and often sought refuge in books.
The new movie "Melancholia" is getting attention not just because it features Kirsten Dunst's comeback, Alexander Skarsgård's jawline and the end of the planet. Lighting Up Our Mental Ills
Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism.
Amid the torrent of music coming out of the Balkans in the past year or two, this session, recorded in the historic town of Mostar, stands out by virtue of its simplicity and its aura of rapt melancholia.
Qui de die jejunant, et nocte vigilant, facile cadunt in melancholiam; et qui naturae modum excedunt, c. Anatomy of Melancholy
If you're not in the market for a new wall color, or you're not quite ready to risk a bout of autumnal melancholia, it's quite easy to use this deep rose as an accent, especially when you want to create a romantic, intimate mood.
Hae vero quomodo causent melancholiam, clarum; et quod concoctionem impediant, et membra principalia debilitent. Anatomy of Melancholy
Provided they see and think, even melancholiacs cannot fail to be uplifted by the document.
After this masterpiece with its tunny fish salads and 'steak risotto' gets knocked down he'll be in Scotland, 'for the melancholia'.
A saint in ecstasy is as motionless and irresponsive and one-idea'd as a melancholiac. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
Si nulla digna laesio, ventriculo, quoniam in hac melancholia capitis, exigua nonnunquam ventriculi pathemata coeunt, duo enim haec membra sibi invicem affectionem transmittunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
Meyer has written of the familiar experience of many artists who, upon completion of their work, feel empty and depressed, like women who suffer post-partum emptiness and melancholia.
If a melancholiac is able to do anything he wants, whom can he accuse? How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
He refused to take on patients who were psychotic; that is, who were suffering from schizophrenia or from the most severe type of melancholia (depressive illness).
There are long stretches of slow melancholia, set against similarly ambling drama.
In Hypochondriaca melancholia adeo ambigua sunt symptomata, ut etiam exercitatissimi medici de loco affecto statuere non possint. Anatomy of Melancholy
Apparently, having to watch last year's old 42-inch flat-screen TV caused such melancholia that some decided to self-medicate with the purchase of a new 51-inch screen. How can the state of the union be sound if our minds are not?
I do not know, even now as I write, how it was that Sir Edmund met his end, whether he had killed himself, as I think -- for he was of a melancholiac disposition, as was his father and his grandfather before him -- or whether, as indeed I think possible, he was murdered by the very man who swore so many Catholic lives away, by way of giving colour to his own designs -- for if a man will swear away twenty lives, what should hinder him from taking one? Oddsfish!
Those, he had always thought cynically, were the symptoms, not of nascent melancholia but of lack of stamina. MURDER SONG
Contrasting greatly with the often-brooding melancholia of Tristeza, LaValle manages to inject an uplifting aspect into his solo work.
Do these films transform us into male melancholiacs, or are we merely passive spectators?
We have not observed in our cases of _involutional melancholia_ any undue tendency to give individual reactions. A Study of Association in Insanity
The city was inhabited by tall spare melancholiacsM/em> dressed in grey wool.
Superbia major quam opulenti rustici, invidia quam luis venerae inimicitia nocentior melancholia, avaritia in immensum profunda. Anatomy of Melancholy
Writers invariably describe the flat estuary land as ‘melancholic ‘, but that's because writers bring their melancholia with them.
Multi intempestive ab haemorrhoidibus curati, melancholia corrupti sunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
She was as used to loneliness as a hotel melancholiac; the people they had known had drifted away to far suburbs. The Innocents A Story for Lovers
His vision is informed by the hope and joy, as well as the melancholia and uncertainty, of that period of incipience.
Looking for old spanners and fondue sets isn't the main reason for my contemplative melancholia.
No, we're talking the Teenage Fanclub of the past few albums, honey kissed pop, sugar-coated melancholia and ultimately a frustrating listen when it should be richly rewarding.
As for me, I found myself suddenly plunged into instant, and to me, inexplicable melancholia. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
He went so far as to question Scripture: "If there are thus no other signs necessary to demon possession, than those which are described by the Evangelists, [then] every epileptic, melancholiac, phrenetic, will have the devil in their body: and there will be more demoniacs in the world than fools. Carleton Cunningham: The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France
All the identified patients had psychotic illnesses: mania and melancholia, general paresis, and post-encephalitic states.
I would, however, still be feeling something - melancholia or acedia, ennui, despair, nameless dread or another such psychic state historically lacking effective treatment.
In Berlin, the Danes were the big winners, with Susanne Bier carrying off best director for In a Better World while her compatriot – and now sworn enemy after comments made in that notorious Cannes press conference – Lars von Trier won best film for Melancholia. Trailer trash
This similarity is of interest in connection with other evidence, recently brought to light, [1] showing that involutional melancholia is closely related to manic-depressive insanity, if not identical with it. A Study of Association in Insanity
Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives.
'William Guthrie was a great melancholian,' says Wodrow, and as we read that we are reminded of some other great melancholians, such as Blaise Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents
Melancholia capitis accedit post phrenesim aut longam moram sub sole, aut percussionem in capite, cap. Anatomy of Melancholy
The title of this series is a pun on Freud's text ‘Mourning and Melancholia,’ which examines object cathexis in libidinal development, the loss of which leads to narcissism.
Asylum doctors divided mental illness into four categories: mania (with an important subcategory, monomania), melancholia, dementia, and idiocy.
It's easy to overdo the lushness in Rachmaninov's music for piano and orchestra, even easier to dive into the melancholia of the Russian ‘soul’.
Abraham's idea that mania "revers [es]" the "retentive tendency of melancholia": mania celebrates the ego's sudden triumph over both ego ideal and the once-loved, lost, and subsequently introjected object. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
Grieve says it "is a good remedy for enfeebled digestion and debility," that it "will relieve melancholia and help to dispel the yellow hue of jaundice from the skin," that it acts as a diuretic, that it's a good vermifuge duh, and that it's a good "mental restorative. Absinthe
Davidson's problem was his winning, fresh-faced toothsomeness; something intelligently offset by his reading of the character as beset by an ancient melancholia.
Asylum doctors divided mental illness into four categories: mania (with an important subcategory, monomania), melancholia, dementia, and idiocy.
Nihil est quod aeque melancholiam alat ac augeat, ac otium et abstinentia a corporis et animi exercitationibus. Anatomy of Melancholy
The atrabilious temperament or melancholia is, according to Aristotle, a natural disposition in which there is a preponderance of black bile over the other humours.
He described an initial, short-lasting episode of motor symptoms characterized by immobility, posturing, and waxy flexibility that ended in a hyperkinetic state; a second stage of melancholia often with stupor; a third stage of “exaltation and rapid and pressured speech” “a certain pathos-filled ‘ecstasy’ this entrains a compulsion to talk in oratorical style”; and, finally, after recurrent exacerbations and remissions of states of passivity and exaltation, an end stage of dementia. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
The distinguishing mental features of melancholia are a profoundly painful dejection, abrogation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity.
Impressio tam fortis in spiritibus humoribusque cerebri, ut extracta tota sanguinea massa, aegre exprimatur, et haec horrenda species melancholiae frequenter oblata mihi, omnes exercens, viros, juvenes, senes. Anatomy of Melancholy
Nihil est quod aeque melancholiam alat ac augeat, ac otium et abstinentia a corporis et animi exercitationibus. Anatomy of Melancholy
Four Icelandic artists create work exploring aspects of melancholia through animation, drawing, painting, sculpture and video.
While the title evidently refers to a looming planet called Melancholia, expect to see most of the action taking place on earth, as the film explores the "psychology view of a disaster. /Film
A melancholiac’s first memory is generally something like this: I remember I wanted to lie on the couch, but my brother was lying there. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Crocodiles and rattlesnakes and pythons are at this moment vessels of life as real as we are; their loathsome existence fills every minute of every day that drags its length along; and whenever they or other wild beasts clutch their living prey, the deadly horror which an agitated melancholiac feels is the literally right reaction on the situation. [ The Varieties of Religious Experience
Will this gained insight allow him to salvage his relationship with Laura, or will it just plunge him into a deeper, darker malaise of melancholia, dooming him to a life of permanent bachelorhood?
Idem maculae in ungulis nigrae, lites, rixas, melancholiam significant, ab humore in corde tali. Anatomy of Melancholy
The room where she wrote, in between bouts of melancholia and swigs of laudanum, remains above the old entrance to the stables.
Thus, paintings like Melancholia, in which Kiefer mines Durer's famous allegory for iconological material, indicate a habit of remembering that is doomed to obsessive repetition, rather than therapeutic redemption.
The following year, it began to be used as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology and dentistry, but it was Sigmund Freud who defended the “wonder drug” in the face of cautions in medical journals, praising it and prescribing it for a variety of ailments, ranging from sea-sickness to melancholia to ironically, rehabilitating morphine addicts. Eaters of Dreams | Edwardian Promenade
The romantics thought that memory bound us in a deep sense of the past, associated with melancholia, but today we think of memory as a mode of re-presentation, and as belonging ever more to the present.
The Festival was at once fiesta and melancholia.
This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven -- Mallare would have killed him. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath
Looking for old spanners and fondue sets isn't the main reason for my contemplative melancholia.
Let me remind you of the now familiar distinction between mourning and melancholia.
Instinctive, impulsive melodies meet melancholia and melodrama in gay tales of arch commentary and frank observation.
Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
Whereas in melancholia the ego is vampirized by the introjected object, in mania the libido turns with ravenous hunger to the external world of objects; whatever appears before the manic's rapidly advancing probe is swallowed. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
As for me, I found myself suddenly plunged into instant, and to me, inexplicable melancholia. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
Margaritae et corallum ad melancholiam praecipue valent. Anatomy of Melancholy
He argues that the melancholiac's self-loathing disguises a hostility towards the lost, beloved object, indicating an underlying ambivalence towards it.
Fuscini derepente tanta acris caligo et terraemotus, ut multi capite dolerent, plurimus cor moerore et melancholia obrueretur. Anatomy of Melancholy
Lib. de Decal. passiones maxime corpus offendunt et animam, et frequentissimae causae melancholiae, dimoventes ab ingenio et sanitate pristina, l. Anatomy of Melancholy
The narrative returns to human losses and the melancholiac recapitulations of grief.
Margaritae et gemmae spiritus confortant et cor, melancholiam fugant. Anatomy of Melancholy
Did Mr. Follett strike you as a melancholiac type?
Those, he had always thought cynically, were the symptoms, not of nascent melancholia but of lack of stamina. MURDER SONG
At first the patients are irritable; later, depression of the melancholiac type dominates the clinical picture.
When the atrabilious humour is in too much abundance melancholia, characterized by aversion to food, despondency, sleeplessness, irritability, restlessness and depression could result.
Be in hospital, move the mutation that waits for an environment, what can cause gawkish symptom is exasperate, bring about melancholia shape to wait.
I daresay I _am_ -- but I _do_ object to being made out a hopeless melancholiac! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891
I would argue that Max is a secret melancholiac: he cannot commence mourning because he has not acknowledged that he lost something in the crash.
Lead poisoning was originally referred to as ‘Saturnism’, because the physical ailments of ingesting small quantities of lead include fatigue, depression and melancholia.
While the title evidently refers to a looming planet called Melancholia, expect to see most of the action taking place on earth, as the film explores the “psychology view of a disaster.” Penelope Cruz to Lead Lars von Trier’s Melancholia | /Film
Some might view this with melancholia - the demise of growth, but to me it is a time of reflection.
No, we're talking the Teenage Fanclub of the past few albums, honey kissed pop, sugar-coated melancholia and ultimately a frustrating listen when it should be richly rewarding.
Its overall tone is apparently muted, opening up after a few minutes to affect the entire room, changing the mood and enveloping the spectator in an inescapable and curiously addictive melancholia.
Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism.
Also you do tend to suffer from a wee bit of melancholia and you quite enjoy it.
The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia præcox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life. The Nervous Child
Just then, a clatter at the head of the stairs announced the arrival of Madame Dort, genius of malaises and melancholia. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
The ranks of mannerist musicians furnish numerous instances of melancholiac and eccentric artists.
‘Depression’, ‘grief’, ‘melancholia’, ‘black bile’, ‘accidie’ are, it is true, not synonymous, nor do they, probably, refer to precisely the same phenomena; but does that mean that there are no such dark phenomena? Jane O'Grady - Can a machine change your mind?
Dram: the vapours were any form of melancholia or nervous disorder; a frequent excuse for the ladies to take a "dram" -- a small quantity of drink such as gin in a cup or glass sized accordingly. The Beggar's Opera
No wonder the hamami is both a time of intense celebration but also slight melancholia, for the Japanese have realised that there's a nostalgia to all beauty and a transience in the best moments of life.
This work seemed to show that the most characteristic (non-coarsely-organic) cases of involutional origin were much given to delusions (each of 24 cases studied), somewhat more so than to the hypochondria and melancholia which we commonly ascribe to the involution period. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
The planet Saturn is connected to the melancholiac personality.
There was a pause while he swam the vast and slate-blue lakes of his inner melancholia to bring to me his request. THE CALLIGRAPHER
This also coincided with an eerily becalmed stage in my university career; after an exhausting period of immersive Keats and Shelley study, I was well up for test-driving the velveteen ache of beatific melancholia.
All the identified patients had psychotic illnesses: mania and melancholia, general paresis, and post-encephalitic states.
I bolted over to Boite Noire (only their St-Denis outlet has a copy) to rent it, thinking the plot sounded like a sweet bit of melancholia.
Over the years, the condition has been called many things, including manic-depression, circular insanity, and involutional melancholia. The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child

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